I have a feeling it will all be clear in *less *than a week.
Of internal comic time.
My guess is that Hel’s fading is supposed to show she’s near the limits of her power. Presumably, this will be a plot point later on.
At least my children will know.
I actually LOL’d. Which would have been embarrassing on this conference call if I hadn’t muted ahead of time.
Well done.
I agree with Nemo: this feels like a motif we’re going to see later, but I don’t know how.
Is Thrym… giving her some divine mojo to help revitalize her? Maybe, maybe not, but it sure looks like that might be happening. And at the very least, he’s been paying attention to what cheers her up. His feelings towards her are starting to look a little less pathetic.
Maybe? I’m not seeing it that way. I’m seeing it as she overexerted herself and is now un-fading as she recovers, and that Thrym is basically just patting her on the shoulder.
And by “later on” I clearly meant “in the next strip”.
So much for all those theories about why the Bet.
“There seems to be some doctrinal flexibility when it comes to rubbing things in your **face, **specifically.”
I like that line, but I also like that Burlew is subverting our expectations about Loki in the same way he did about Thor when Durkon finally met him.
I generally feel like Burlew falls into the “extremely creative but not a terribly great writer” camp, but I’ve for sure been enjoying the scenes we’re getting with the Norse deities.
Wham! is not rock 
Why did they need to break the domination? Wouldn’t the death of the vamps have broken that automatically?
one of the vamps is still on the loose?
The surviving vampire is the only one we saw dominating a council member so maybe she was in charge of dominating all of them to give the orders later or something? In case the Exarch had to handle outside interference? I guess that would fit why everyone needed their domination broken.
Would all of the dominated dwarves be a Dominion?
I guess the book is about over.
I like the visuals on the de-stoning effect.
Either that or the death of the dominator does not free the dominatee. We only have one example of someone released from domination when a vampire expired: Hilgya. In her case, she may have been released by Durkon* before he turned off the anti-life field. Or maybe she got a new saving throw for whatever reason.
Pretty close. All the other books except the first had a black panel with white text about how the strip will continue in a month or two. So this is not quite the end of the book.
Considering that those visuals were (at least in panel 2) based on Richie Havens’ song at Woodstock, everyone should be stoned, not de-stoned.
Still another few pages to go. The Giant says he’s hoping to get the book out before Christmas. If it was only one or two pages, he’d be able to say for sure. I’d guess maybe another 15-20 pages.
Things to wrap up before the end:
- mend the table
- rescue the cousin’s fiancee from the perpetual slope
- dwarven council votes
- Godsmoot resolved
- catch and destroy the last vampire
- Durkon speaks to Hilgya about visitation rights and his parental responsibility
- The Order returns to the Mechane
- some surprise revelation the last page, to be resolved in the next book.